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Who cares, I’m just some person. You said it was “obvious” that population growth was the “root cause” of global warming. I don’t think that’s either obvious or true. It seems more likely that population growth is the consequence of industrial exploitation of fossil fuels, rather than the cause of it. But climate change and human ecology are both famously nonlinear dynamic systems so I think it’s even more plausible to suppose they mutually cause and are caused by each other.

if we're talking about reducing carbon footprint impacts a few less babies goes further than anything? i guess i realize it would be a disaster to try and mandate it but at a personal level i think it's morally wrong to have more than two children. also i think our conception of the nuclear family as this blood-defined, sacred untouchable thing is holding us back.

xp ok that seems plausible

it's incredibly selfish and irresponsible to have kids

as all your parents proved

sorry, not controversial, I'll take it to the second thought about thread from here on out

ps y'all are drunk, right?

I don't drink

Me neither

I meant map and flappy. “why not just shrink the population in a humane way, like by forcing people to limit their family to a certain size?” just seems like Saturday night influenced talk to me

nah i'm not into that, i just think it's existentially irresponsible

I think the current war on plastic packaging, especially straws, is 90% about making people feel better that they are doing nothing about climate change.

could apply that to 99% of consumer-based efforts toward sustainability tbh

You’re all doing that Doug Stanhope bit now?

Hoppy IPAs are among life's few true joys and the hipster backlash is ridiculous in a world that is still ruled by Anheuser-Busch.

OK I'm going to have to fight you here

The backlash is a mere matter of taste. Some of us who have laboured under the tyranny of hoppy IPAs (ie tried to drink in pubs in England) are now increasingly free to choose other options and that is a good thing

I have to assume England is pretty different if hoppy IPAs have ever been anything close to mainstream, let alone dominant. Fans of mediocre lagers have never been at a loss on this side of the Atlantic.

some of us just wanna get drunk efficiently

mediocre lagers don't even register. often the hoppy IPA is the only conscionable choice

get some fucking Stella darn you, you hard water drinking metropolitan 'eete!

If you guys are looking for controversial opinions: sedentary, hierarchical human civilization is indefensible. Maybe there's a way to do it sustainably and responsibly but we'll destroy the biosphere before we find that solution.

not sure that's controversial. how about "I'd rather the world was destroyed than that my life was made less convenient or comfortable"?

Overhopped IPAS are the worst but I am not sure if they are worse than Stella.

xpost That works. Our trajectory seems irreversible so civilization is basically just hospice care at this point. Give me temperature control and a TV where I can watch my stories as I fade away.

Nothing is worse than Stella.

Corporate Beer Still Sucks

Consumers of hoppy beers with ABV between 6% and 10% make more accidental babies than lager/pilsner drinking peers, BAN IPA

I only drink corporate booze out of class consciousness

I'm not even trying to be a controversialist philistine here. I'm happy as a pig in shit supping generic lager brands and cheap wine out of boxes, to the death!

as long as generic lager brand doesn't dip below 4.8% abv, it's passes my stringent 1 test!

but you can get good cheap wine in a box, the cheap USA lagers at least are all piss

tbf Budweiser is piss, but great for making beef stews with.

Stella is slightly more rancid piss that is also priced like an import.

yeah it is serviceable for cooking in the same way bad wine is xp

Also, anyone whose class analysis centres around things like preferences in beer or punctuation rules is basically David Brooks and thus the enemy.

it's just how I was raised sir

xps
It's very cheap in the UK is Stella. I think about £4.35 a 4 pack in the local Co-op at the mo.

Budweiser is slightly less bad than Stella imo

Beer opinions are the worst.

actually eating wurst can justify a cheap lager

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ew

Oh, is that supposed to be an April Fool deal? I remember that place in London, Garlic and Shots where they would squeeze garlic into your lager. It was fine.

Here's a couple of controversial opinions: Human progress has been a great thing, humans are quite fantastic animals, and though it'll undoubtedly be tough, we'll figure out how to avoid the worst of the hypothetical climate scenarios.

I am on a bus next to a professor of political science who is bloviating to his seatmate about his research, the goal of which is to increase the burden of proof necessary for victims of sexual assault to bring against their aggressors. His rationale is that “young men’s’ lives might be ruined because of spurious accusations.” If I ever heard a challop....

here's a controversial opinion: nobody actually thinks humans are just animals. look at how people openly treat animals. eating them (exclusively, nobody eats humans even though they are "just animals"), walking them around on a leash; even beloved pets are "put down". also whenever somebody says "we are just apes" they usually follow it up with "look at all we've accomplished, Shakespeare, Picasso, etc." can't help placing humans on a pedestal. anthropocentrism is a helluva drug.

i too would like to see cannibalism become more socially acceptable

people generally don't eat apes unless there's extreme famine, iirc

nah bush meat is a thing

you want them free range tho, not just out of the local zoo

what about if there was an extra box on organ donor cards like "I want to be eaten by foodies in the event of my untimely death"?

i reckon i'd make good crackling